The coronavirus pandemic has caused an 'unprecedented education emergency' with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned on Monday.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused an"unprecedented education emergency" with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned on Monday.
It said the economic fall-out of the crisis could force an extra 90 to 117 million children into poverty, with a knock-on effect on school admissions. "Instead we are at risk of unparallelled budget cuts which will see existing inequality explode between the rich and the poor, and between boys and girls."
“We cannot allow COVID-19 to push millions of children out of school forever, limiting their future prospects. Australia has a role to play and it, like other nations, must step up,” he said. "The promise the world has made to ensure all children have access to a quality education by 2030, will be set back by years," she said, citing the United Nations goal.
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